Its getting worst as ISIS is taking a dangerous, this need to stop!
The war against ISIS is taking a dangerous, perhaps inevitable turn. The terror organization has been keen to expand to southern Syria and the Syrian capital of Damascus. Now it says it has recruited three Syrian rebel groups operating in the south of the country in an area bordering the Israeli occupied Golan Heights
— that have switched their loyalties to ISIS.
This switch means that Israel, the U.S.’s closest ally in the Middle East, could be threatened from the southwest by the Egyptian ISIS group of Ansar Bait al-Maqdis in Sinai and by ISIS in southern Syria.
The
ISIS war is not going well at all for the US-led alliance in Syria.
ISIS and al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, are still the
dominant rebel groups in the country. The U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army
is still not a reliable fighting force.
The three rebel groups that just joined ISIS could make that situation even worse. Two of the groups are small in number, but the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade has hundreds of fighters. The Yarmouk Brigades has been at odds with al-Nusra Front and switched now to join what leaders of all thrwee groups believe is the future of Islam.
“If
Israel was attacked by ISIS, America would expect a proportionate
response by Israel, which is militarily capable of defending itself,”
said Geoffrey Levin, a professor at New York University. “America would
counsel against sustained Israeli involvement because it could threaten
the tacit alliance between America, Iran, Turkey, and several Arab
states against ISIS.”
“More
recent reports indicated a closer alliance with [the Islamic State] due
to tensions with JN [al-Nusra Front],” said Jasmine Opperman, a
researcher at Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium (TRAC). She
said al-Nusra attacked the headquarters of the Yarmouk Brigade in
southern Syria in early December 2014 following clashes between the two
groups.
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